GARCIA-BENGOCHEA v. CARNIVAL CORP.

No. 20-12960, No. 20-14251.

57 F.4th 916 (2023)

Javier GARCIA-BENGOCHEA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CARNIVAL CORPORATION, a foreign corporation d.b.a. Carnival Cruise Lines, Defendant-Appellee. Javier Garcia-Bengochea, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: January 10, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Scott Gowdy , Creed & Gowdy, Jacksonville, FL, Stephanie Anne Casey , Zachary Andrew Lipshultz , Roberto Martinez , Aziza F. Elayan-Martinez , Colson Hicks Eidson, Coral Gables, FL, Francisco R. Maderal, Jr. , Maderal Byrne, PLLC, Coral Gables, FL, Rodney S. Margol , Margol & Pennington, PA, Jacksonville, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Meredith Lys Schultz , AT, Stuart H. Singer , Corey Patrick Gray , Pascual Oliu , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Fort Lauderdale, FL, George J. Fowler, III , Jones Walker, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Luis Emilio Llamas , Jones Walker, LLP, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee Carnival Corporation of Docket No. 20-12960.

Sanford L. Bohrer , Scott Daniel Ponce , Holland & Knight, LLP, Miami, FL, for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. of Docket No. 20-14251.

Samuel J. Dubbin , Dubbin & Kravetz, LLP, Coral Gables, FL, for Amici Curiae Dan Burton , Directorio Democratico Cubano, Inc., Robert Torricelli .

Lewis Yelin , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Lisa Tobin Rubio , U.S. Attorney Service — SFL, Miami, FL, Sharon Swingle , U.S. Attorney General's Office, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States.

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC.

U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Attorney General's Office, Washington, DC.

United States Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, Washington, DC.

Before Jordan and Newsom, Circuit Judges, and Burke, District Judge.


We grant the petition for panel rehearing, vacate our prior opinion and Judge Jordan's concurrence, reported at 2022 WL 17170885 (11th Cir. Nov. 23, 2022), and substitute the following in their place. The only changes to the prior opinion and the concurrence consist of statutory citations and references to the Helms-Burton Act.

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